RE: [GO] Archive download format

2004-11-06 Thread Anita Graham
I have subscribed girlsown to the mail-archive. This means that it should now start receiving girlsown mail, and begin archiving it (and making it searchable) in a few days. Let's see how it goes Anita > In an attempt to find out if there are any scripts out there, > that will let you import M

[GO] GO Litigation

2004-11-06 Thread Constance Martin
Anyone who has actually passed the bar can correct me but I am told that cases on "deliberate infliction of emotional distress" are no longer received well by the judiciary, along with those "breach of promise for broken engagements" we read about in 19th century novels. Of course, if they have be

Re: [GO] GO Litigation

2004-11-06 Thread nicky smith
> > I have not reread Ready Made Family recently but because my mother and I > read the four school stories and then Runaway Home first, we were extremely > curious about Karen's marriage and expected more in the way of revelation as > to Edwin's appeal. I do know a couple people who fell for th

[GO] Re: GO -OT- Song Help

2004-11-06 Thread Debra Grice
The song (thank you Nicky and Jan) is Bastity Chelt by Jasper Carrott and Philip is most impressed by the collective GO brain. Debra -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.net.au/cgi-b

RE: [GO] Re: Medical Question for BD

2004-11-06 Thread Airth
Title: Message ME is Myalgic Encephalitis or more commonly called 'Yuppie Flu'. It is an extremely debilitating illness; I know. My son was diagnosed in 1990 and has not yet recovered. He is not well enough to work - he was forced to drop out of school at the age of 13.   CFS is chronic fati

Re: [GO] Re: Medical Question for BD

2004-11-06 Thread Meredith Dixon
On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 17:42:42 +0200, you wrote: >Do not know what SLE is Systemic lupus erythematosis. (I'm not certain of the spelling of the last word.) To Airth's explanation, let me add that CFS is the usual diagnosis in the U.S. for people with what Britain calls M.E., though sometimes, unfor

[GO] My ISP lost digests 32 and 33

2004-11-06 Thread Caroline Tabach
Can anyone send the above digests? thanks Caroline Tabach [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.783 / Virus Database: 529 - Release Date: 25/10/04 -- Girlsow

Re: [GO] epidemics going OT

2004-11-06 Thread telkomsa133851
Now why would mumps suddenly attack people born in those years? There's obviously something I've missed here. Janferie > There I was, wandering along pondering epidemics in GO, when my eye was > caught by one of the huge posters that have sprung up on campus about a > predicted mumps e

Re: [GO] illnesses nowadays

2004-11-06 Thread telkomsa133851
There's something else for Pollyanna > to be glad about. These days she'd still be flat on her back. > > Marcia > No ways! She'd have undergone rigorous rehabilitation and be zooming around in her wheelchair winning all sorts of events at the paralympics and being a great inspiration to others.

Re: [GO] Sadako and the thousand paper cranes

2004-11-06 Thread KAIT BESSING
Samantha Rowan wrote: > Is it read outside of the >US/Canada? Oh yes. I read it in Swedish as a child. Very scary and sad, like you said. Kait -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it.n

Re: [GO] Sadako and the thousand paper cranes

2004-11-06 Thread KAIT BESSING
And I think it's worth pointing out that, IIRC, Sadako had leukemia as a result of being a child in Hiroshima when the atom bomb hit... That, to me, was the really scary part! Kait -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and ac

[GO] Book Finds

2004-11-06 Thread Rose Humphreys
Wednesday was a day, but there was a lovely bright highlight in the middle - I found some books! Hbk Cricket Term 1st ed 1974, dw and all - so now I had 2 AF in hbk (other one is Autumn T.) Yes I realise these are probably the easiest to find, but here they're as scarce as hen's teeth. Also Lar

[GO] sickened violet

2004-11-06 Thread Rickard/Paulson
Betsy... I'd forgotten Auntie in this book, by Dorothy Canfield. I read it when I was in high school and it took me years to find my own copy but I do love it. Betsy begins as a shy ineffective town mouse and is completely changed by having to assume responsibility when she moves to live with her

[GO] BD; Illness as plot device

2004-11-06 Thread Sally Dore
Okay, everyone's convinced me that there *are* several examples of cancer being used in children's books as TB was. But I *still* think there is a difference, in that cancer in books for children is, on the examples quoted, the *point* of the book - it is the *whole* plot, and not merely a plot de

Re: [GO] Consumption

2004-11-06 Thread Ellen Jordan
Diane Purkiss writes: "In the C19th, TB was always associated with the menace of the underclass." This is not the impression given by the 1885 Encyclopaedia Britannica, where it is seen as primarily hereditary, the long article stating: "No disease runs more in families than tubercule. While th

[GO] "Miss" - re Noel Streatfeild

2004-11-06 Thread Barbara Ann BROWN
NS herself encounters this very problem in Beyond the Vicarage. She has returned home to stay with her mother in lodgings. Poor mother has not grasped that things have changed, and says to the landlady "Here we are" as if they'd been hanging around in the hall for them "Miss Vicky's train was la

[GO] GO Mumps etc.

2004-11-06 Thread Debra Grice
I wasn't born in the danger slot but I have never had mumps, even when my brother and best chum succumbed in 1972. Should I be afraid, very afraid, or can I assume some sort of immunity? I had German measles twice, but that probably means 0 in terms of mumps immunity, even if it is now the same ja

Re: [GO] Consumption / Encyclopaedia Britannica

2004-11-06 Thread Nicky Smith
- Original Message - From: "Ellen Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 10:17 PM Subject: Re: [GO] Consumption > A further by-the-way. I now have a wonderful 35-volume 1880s > Britannica, so if anyone wants to know what was the official lin

[GO] OT: a sad goodbye

2004-11-06 Thread Jo Robins
OK, I know it's not as bad as saying goodbye to a live animal, but I had to throw out my Puggle today which I have had since I was about 12 (I'm now 40!). It has been sitting on my chest of drawers, looking cheekily and cheerily out at me for many, many moons. Today I noticed a hole in it's bag

Re: [GO] BD Sweet Violets: social class and germs

2004-11-06 Thread Di Henley
Ann wrote > I would have expected Australian books to be less class-ridden than > English, but this doesn't seem to be the case for Turner. Ethel Turner was born in England though, so perhaps English attitudes are to be expected. Her mother brought Ethel and her sisters to Australia when she w

[GO] Abbey Series + Connectors

2004-11-06 Thread Jules M
Hi All, I was hoping someone could help me out. I am trying to work out which Abbey and Abbey Connector books I still don't have and have lost my complete list due to my compputer falling in a heap and needing to be formatted. I once had a great list from the Penrith City site and as that has

[GO] (GO) O/T A Sad Goodbye

2004-11-06 Thread Elaine Moore
Oh Jo, you didn't have to chuck him out! You could have zapped him in the microwave to kill the bugs and then mended the hole! regards, Elaine M -- Girlsown mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For self-administration and access to archives see http://home.it